Avatar: A New Telling *MA*

[Major Dawn]

Title: Avatar: A New Telling
Author: Me.
Fandom: Avatar
Pairings: Jake/Neytiri, Tsu’tey/OC, Norm/Trudy
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Prologue:

Pandora was a beautiful place. Or so hope the two surviving Sully siblings. The trio of trouble, they had been called. The two males, identical, were almost exact opposites. Tommy was the brain, the scientist, where Jake was the brawn, the military man. But the girl, Kady, was both. She was their heart. The 22 year old triplets had been inseparable. At least, until Tommy was killed by a mugger. Though, Kady had her suspicions that it was arranged.

Two men from the company Tom worked for, had approached Jake and Kady before Tom’s cremation, Tom had arranged Kady’s transfer from the program on Earth, to the Avatar program on Pandora. But they needed Jake because of Tom’s avatar. Otherwise, she’d be without her brother for nigh close to a decade. And Kady didn’t like being separated from her brothers. Now they were just twins, their third killed in a mugging that stunk to high heaven of suspicion, at least to Kady. And now? Now on the transport from the ship above Pandora, that was taking them to Hell’s Gate. Hell’s Gate was one of the bases on Pandora. All quite apt to their names, except for the small outpost at the Hallelujah mountains.

Kady sat next to her brother, chattering with Norm. Jake had been quiet most of the ride, but he was still active in the conversation. Kady was thought to be an extreme oddity. The atmosphere of Pandora had absolutely NO effect on her. Kady was quite beautiful, people thought her to be a brainless shit, like most girls her age and with her looks. But when she broke down the components needed to make the tiniest, and most important, part of a gun, they shut the hell up. Kady had quite the temper and was thought to, by her family, be quite fearless.

But she was just like any other girl, in some respects, she had her fears just like anybody else. She hated seeing Jake in that chair, remembering when they used to just run. But he couldn’t do that anymore. She couldn’t wait until they were in their avatars. She wanted to run with her brother again. Just do the small things, like playing. Just running and climbing and wrestling. She was shit at basketball, which Norm said was rumored to be favored at the bases.

Kady had tuned out the crew chief. The man had been told that Kady was immune to the atmosphere, but he didn’t seem to believe it.

“Remember people,” He yelled over the roar of the engines, “you lose your mask; you’re unconscious in 20 seconds,” No shit, Kady thought to herself, “and you’re dead in four minutes,” Kady rolled her eyes under closed eyelids, “let’s nobody be dead today, it looks bad on my report.”
Jake noticed the nasty look the crew chief gave Kady and just glared back at him. Even IF Kady was older than him, he still protected her like she was the baby. Since Tom died, it became his job to take care of Kady. When the transport landed, everyone lined up to get off the boat. Kady held on to Jake’s shoulders, standing on the little pedals on the back of the wheelchair, that Tom had put there just for her. Kady looked over her shoulder at Norm, who excused himself and cut up the line to them. The two surviving Sully sibling put themselves in the chatty scientist’s hands.

The crew chief gave them a look, but the trio ignored it. Jake and Kady were just too damn tired to deal with his attitude. Kady leaned forward on her brother, taking an I-Pod out of her pocket, handing it to Norm. Who held it as she put one set of earbuds in her ears, then he handed it back so she could put the other set in Jake’s, tucking the I-Pod into a pocket on the wheelchair after starting the music. Kady and Jake relaxed as the first song of Kady’s ‘Love Sick’ play list started.

“Go directly into the base,” The crew chief just sighed and shook his head at Jake and Kady, who had their eyes closed, “Do not stop, go straight inside.”
Norm rolled his eyes, but waited as the line went on, moving when it was their turn.

“Look at all the new meat,” Norm heard one man speak.
Norm made sure that he was standing close enough to the wheelchair to brace Kady and went on, trying to ignore them.

“Check it out,” The other spoke, having spotted Norm, Kady and Jake, “meals on wheels.”
Norm was suddenly glad that Kady had turned the I-Pod on when she did. Or else, she would have been over there ripping the guy a new one. Kady had quite the temper, so Norm was ever so glad. Jake felt relaxed by the touch of his sister. Yeah, Jake thought to himself, and THAT didn’t sound bad. Jake didn’t know what he would have done if he’d lost BOTH of his siblings. He probably would have just died. He would have been too far gone, lost, without purpose.

“That is just wrong,” The first man just shook his head.
The two men, Wainfleet and Fike, give the trio a few nasty looks. Norm made sure that he had Kady pinned to the chair, but it was Jake that spoke.

“What are you two limp dicks staring at?” Jake glared.

[Major Dawn]

Title: Avatar: A New Telling
Author: Me.
Fandom: Avatar
Pairings: Jake/Neytiri, Tsu’tey/OC, Norm/Trudy
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Chapter One:


Colonel Miles Quaritch looked over the one hundred new arrivals, which included Norm, Kady and Jake amongst them. Fresh meat for the grinder, He thought to himself.

“You are on Pandora, ladies and gentlemen,” He spoke, “respect that fact, every second of every day.”
Kady had turned off the I-Pod a while ago. She knew how much little speeches like this relaxed her brother, so she just endured it. The two ignored Quaritch’s amused look at her and Jake. Kady was currently sitting in her brother’s lap, their duffles taken care of already. And Jake’s arms were wrapped around his sister, keeping a grip on her hip and leg to keep her from sliding off. Quaritch pointed to the window behind him, toward the treeline that was clearly visible.

“Out beyond that fence,” He continued, “every living thing that crawls, flies or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubees.”
Kady buried her face into her brother’s neck, “Ew, nice mental image,” She murmered.
Jake kept a straight face, but Norm could tell that he was trying not to laugh at her comment. The silence that had overtaken the newbies was deafening to the Sully siblings’ ears.

“We have an indigenous population of humanoids here called the Na’vi,” He kept on, “they are fond of arrows that are dipped in a neurotoxin which can stop your heart in one minute,” he saw Kady shudder at the comment, but didn’t let on that he did, “we operate, we live, at a constant threat condition yellow.”
He could see the looks on the faces of the newbies. Apprehension and realization. He took a moment to look at them all, before he continued.

“As head of security, it’s my job to keep you alive,” He ignored the softest snort that he guessed came from Kady, “I will not succeed,” he paused, secretly loving the startled and alarmed looks on the faces of the newbies, “not with all of you. If you wish to survive, you need a strong mental attitude, you need to follow procedure.”
Norm noticed the rather pointed look that Quaritch gave Kady, the xenoantropoligist’s eyes narrowing at the man.
…
Doctor Max Cullimore hurried along, Norm wheeling Kady and Jake along. Kady was still sitting in her brother’s lap, looking utterly drained and tired.

“Me and Norm were out here to remotely controlled bodies called avatars,” He spoke, “they’re grown from human DNA mixed with DNA from the natives here.”
“Cool,” Kady sleepily chuckled, curling into her brother.
Max stopped, looking over his shoulder at her.

“Yeah,” He chuckled, “it is,” then he saw how tired she was, “when you guys are put in the link pods, your bodies will get rested.”
Kady gave him a grateful look. Norm stops at the amnio tank, Kady sitting up straight as she and Jake stared at the being within. She reached out and touched the glass, the being within twitching, then turning toward Kady.

“Wow…” She said softly.
Jake’s hand joined his sister’s on the glass.

“It looks like him,” Jake speaks, cutting in on Max and Norm’s quiet conversation, but speaking more to his sister than to them.
“Yeah,” She strokes the glass softly, as if stroking the avatar’s cheek.
It surprised Max, and anybody else looking, when the avatar almost seemed to lean into Kady’s phantom touch.

“No,” Norm spoke softly, “it looks like you. This is your avatar now, Jake.”
Then he walked over and scooped Kady up, walking her over to another amnio tank. Max grabbed another wheelchair, even though she didn’t need it medically, she looked like she was about to fall over and pass out.

“This is you avatar, Kady,” Norm spoke softly, after sitting her down in the chair.
Jake wheeled himself over to the amnio tank of Kady’s avatar. They had pulled off Kady’s super model looks on a Na’vi based body. And Jake had the feeling that his sister would draw the attention of any Na’vi male they may encounter in the future.
…
“When the men approached us,” Kady sighed heavily, looking like the walking dead, staring at the camera, “I couldn’t believe that Tommy had pulled off getting the transfer. Got me transferred from the Earth based research program on the Avatars, to here. To Pandora.”
Jake had just finished his log, so Kady was doing hers. Jake watched his sister as she spoke, seeing the sympathetic looks from Max and Norm.



“Grace Augustine is a legend,” Norm spoke, with what Jake knew Kady called Fanboy Excitement, “she’s the head of the Avatar program. And she wrote the book, I mean LITERALLY wrote the book, on Pandoran botany.”
“Fanboy,” Kady coughed, looking a bit perkier, since Max gave her some caffeine.
Norm glared playfully at Kady, who stuck an apparently pierced tongue out at him in retaliation. Max chuckled and shook his head, finally realizing why her avatar’s tongue was pierced.

“That’s because she likes plants better than people,” He said in a stage-whisper to Jake and Kady.
Jake rolled his eyes. His sister was like that at times. Kady was walking now, with Norm’s help, the xenoanthropologist keeping close to her, a hand on her back in case she collapsed. The woman in question sat up from her link pod, stretching and look none too happy. From Kady’s guess, the woman looked about fifty. Well earned, Kady thought. When she started yelling about a cigarette, Kady whipped one out of seemingly nowhere and held it out in front of her.

“Thanks,” Grace grumbled, waiting as Kady lit it for her.
Yeah, Kady smoked. Her brothers didn’t like it any, especially when she had to get her lungs replaced with lab grown replacement organs, because she’d smoked one too many in high school. That was actually why her voice was so scratchy, because of her smoking habit.

“I keep trying to quit,” Kady said conversationally, lighting her own when she heard her brother scoff, “yeah, well, fuck you very much, Jakey,” she said after taking a drag.
Grace raised a brow at Kady, the 22 year old pointing to her wheelchair bound brother.

“I know you were expecting Tommy,” Kady sighed, Grace noticing that note of sadness at the mention of Tom Sully, “but you get Jakey the Jarhead.”
“Why?” Grace asked, taking a drag of the cigarette, breathing in that welcoming feeling.
Kady flinched, so Jake spoke up.

“Tom was killed by a mugger,” Jake spoke in an almost dead tone.
Grace said nothing. She’d lost someone like that too.
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Grace still went to chew out Parker Selfridge, but she said nothing about it to Max, Norm or the Sully siblings. The next day, Norm, Jake and Kady were to link to their avatars. Kady was slightly envious of hers. Hers had a GORGEOUS body. Nine feet tall and she had tits like Pamela Anderson. Max had made the comment that, from what Grace had spoke of encountering the Na’vi females, none of them had tits like that. Grace had actually been amused with how Kady’s avatar developed. And now that she had seen the female Sully, she understood. The DNA that was incorporated in Kady’s avatar had adapted to the woman’s form, instead of to the typical Na’vi female’s form.

Grace had looked like she wanted to throttle somebody when Kady and Jake told her that they hadn’t logged any link time. Jake was understandable, but Kady had worked on the project on Earth. Kady told her that she wasn’t allowed anywhere near the DEVELOPING avatars, much less a fully grown one, let alone near a link pod to log time. Her chauvinistic boss just thought she couldn’t do it, that she was virtually brainless except for the task she was given, which was mixing the DNA cocktail of all the avatars. Kady popped Jake upside his head before he grumped about not accepting help, so he just let Grace help him get his legs into the pod.

Jake looked over at Kady’s pod to see it closing. Kady ‘woke up’ in her avatar, blinking rapidly until her eyes focused. The two doctors with the avatars were speaking a little too loud for Kady’s taste, so she decided to make it known.

“Can you guys shut the hell up?” She spoke, just as Norm ‘woke up’ in his avatar, “your loud voices are making my damn head hurt.”
Kady through her arm over her eyes, breathing slowly. They had put an eco mask over her face, so they had obviously not believed what they had been told about her. She heard the doctors speaking as her brother woke up in his avatar. And she cringed at all the noise he made, getting up and moving around, when he shouldn’t have been.


Kady dressed in a black sports bra and spandex shorts, sized to fit her avatar, rolling her golden eyes at the looks and whistles she was receiving. When she found her brother, he and Grace were playing basketball. The ball rolled, coming to a stop at her bare feet. She bent over and picked it up, ignoring the ‘oh, holy god’ from Norm, standing with the ball.

“Looking for this?” She held it up when Grace and Jake looked her way.
She smiled at Jake, tossing the ball to Norm. She walked over to her brother and inspected him, nudging him with her hip.

“Look at you, little brother,” She laughed, “standing,” she sighed sadly.
Jake caught the sigh and pulled his sister in for a hug. Grace just smiled affectionately at the two, seeing the twin-like likeness between the two. Norm noticed how the avatars’ prehensile tails actually wrapped together, like the two avatars were holding hands. Little actions that Jake and Kady had themselves, had obviously ingrained into the DNA of the avatars, the ‘hand holding’ action of their tails being one their little ticks. When Jake, Kady and Tom were little children, they were always holding on to each other, in one way or another. The unconscious action was rather adorable in Grace’s opinion.